{"id":4250,"date":"2010-10-01T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T06:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2010-09-22T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T19:16:43","slug":"gems-of-the-goddess-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2010\/10\/01\/gems-of-the-goddess-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Gems of the Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The leaves are falling, and the birds are chirping about, harvesting food for the chilly months ahead.\u00a0 The smell of spices are in the air, and pumpkins are being carved.\u00a0 These are all some of the feelings of fall.\u00a0 With these feelings are the goddesses associated with autumn, or as some people may call Harvest.\u00a0 Demeter is one of the many goddesses with autumn ties.\u00a0 She is the Greek goddess of the harvesting times and has a very nurturing spirit.\u00a0 She has been known to be very giving towards mankind, granting them crops to plow, and grain to save.\u00a0 With that mothering soul of hers she had her daughter Persephone, who is known as the queen of the underworld.\u00a0 Most of you may know the story of Persephone and Demeter, but for those who don\u2019t, it all started with Hades. Hades couldn\u2019t help but fall in love with Persephone.\u00a0 So one day when Persephone was picking a flower the earth opened up, and up rose Hades strong arm, and pulled Persephone right down to the underworld with him.\u00a0 Having heard Persephone\u2019s scream, Demeter ran to the meadow where Persephone was. Persephone was nowhere to be found.\u00a0 Demeter instantly lit her torch and set out on her search to look everywhere she could possibly think of. Finally, Demeter encountered Helio, the sun goddess, who told her that Persephone was now Hades wife and queen of the underworld.\u00a0 So stricken with grief, Demeter withdrew her divine duties as being provider of the land and sentenced the earth to be bare until her daughter was brought back to her.\u00a0 The earth saw a winter that was never ending.\u00a0 Zeus, Demeter\u2019s husband, finally opened his eyes to all the starvation that was going on in the world and eventually gave in to Demeter and sent Hermes to tell Hades to bring Persephone back.\u00a0 Persephone was delighted to here of her mothers longing, and agreed to return.\u00a0 But just as she was about to leave, Hades offered her a pomegranate.\u00a0 Persephone knew to never eat anything in the underworld, but she was so hungry from not eating for so long she decided to eat just the seeds.\u00a0 Demeter was not at all happy upon hearing that Persephone ate the seeds, and told her that she would have to return to the underworld for four months out of each year.\u00a0 Otherwise, Demeter was very content and resumed her goddess duties.<\/p>\n

CONNECTING WITH DEMETER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because Demeter is such a loving, motherly goddess, I\u2019m sure she would love to connect with anyone who has a kind heart.\u00a0 You could try writing a letter of things you wish to cultivate in the coming harvest, and burying it in the ground.\u00a0 The Divine Goddesses are always willing to listen and defiantly want to help. Demeter would be happy to help you harvest your desires this fall and remind you of your mothering flame as well.<\/p>\n

SYMBOLS AND THINGS TO PUT ON YOUR ALTER<\/strong>: torch, acorns, bread, copper, emerald, cinnamon, sunflowers, myrrh, patchouli, any household pets, cranes, and lizards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leaves are falling, and the birds are chirping about, harvesting food for the chilly months ahead.\u00a0 The smell of spices are in the air, and pumpkins are being carved.\u00a0 These are all some of the feelings of fall.\u00a0 With these feelings are the goddesses associated with autumn, or as some people may call Harvest.\u00a0 Demeter is one of the many goddesses with autumn ties.\u00a0 She is the Greek goddess of the harvesting times and has a very nurturing spirit.\u00a0 She has been known to be very giving towards mankind, granting them crops to plow, and grain to save.\u00a0 With that mothering soul of hers she had her daughter Persephone, who is known as the queen of the underworld.\u00a0 Most of you may know the story of Persephone and Demeter, but for those who don\u2019t, it all started with Hades. Hades couldn\u2019t help but fall in love with Persephone.\u00a0 So one day when Persephone was picking a flower the earth opened up, and up rose Hades strong arm, and pulled Persephone right down to the underworld with him.\u00a0 Having heard Persephone\u2019s scream, Demeter ran to the meadow where Persephone was. Persephone was nowhere to be found.\u00a0 Demeter instantly lit her torch and set out on her search to look everywhere she could possibly think of. Finally, Demeter encountered Helio, the sun goddess, who told her that Persephone was now Hades wife and queen of the underworld.\u00a0 So stricken with grief, Demeter withdrew her divine duties as being provider of the land and sentenced the earth to be bare until her daughter was brought back to her.\u00a0 The earth saw a winter that was never ending.\u00a0 Zeus, Demeter\u2019s husband, finally opened his eyes to all the starvation that was going on in the world and eventually gave in to Demeter and sent Hermes to tell Hades to bring Persephone back.\u00a0 Persephone was delighted to here of her mothers longing, and agreed to return.\u00a0 But just as she was about to leave, Hades offered her a pomegranate.\u00a0 Persephone knew to never eat anything in the underworld, but she was so hungry from not eating for so long she decided to eat just the seeds.\u00a0 Demeter was not at all happy upon hearing that Persephone ate the seeds, and told her that she would have to return to the underworld for four months out of each year.\u00a0 Otherwise, Demeter was very content and resumed her goddess duties. CONNECTING WITH DEMETER Because Demeter is such a loving, motherly goddess, I\u2019m sure she would love to connect with anyone who has a kind heart.\u00a0 You could try writing a letter of things you wish to cultivate in the coming harvest, and burying it in the ground.\u00a0 The Divine Goddesses are always willing to listen and defiantly want to help. Demeter would be happy to help you harvest your desires this fall and remind you of your mothering flame as well. SYMBOLS AND THINGS TO PUT ON YOUR ALTER: torch, acorns, bread, copper, emerald, cinnamon, sunflowers, myrrh, patchouli, any household pets, cranes, and lizards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}